Reading a forum I regularly post at, I noticed the following post:

Subj: what I'm afraid of
Another terrorist attack on US soil just happens to occur in October and Bush suspends the November elections. That's the only thing I can imagine that will really cause the shit to hit the fans.

Naturally, I was taken aback. I wanted to respond, but words fail me, and I really shudder to think of the responses I'd recieve (not that fear of the responses would stop me - I simply don't know what to say). It's breathtaking.

That post was in response to (what I hope was) a tongue in cheek reference to the war predicted by one John Titor. The Titor phenemenon is a fascinating one. Some of the details are disputed, but apparently around November of 2000, Mr. Titor started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036. After a few months he posted that he would be returning to 2036, and was never heard from again. Naturally, he made all sorts of vague predictions that, in retrospect, appear to have been true! Right, that's logical. But these sorts of internet things are interesting to read, so check it out. In particular, Mr. Titor made one very specific prediction:

America will soon be engaged in civil war with itself; a civil war that we'll see the beginnings of during 2004 and 2005, escalating until it is indisputable by 2008

Naturally, Bush will be the one to start this civil war. It's so obvious , right? Right!?

Anyway, I suppose there is a slim hope that the above listed post was meant as a joke or a snarky attempt to fill the Titor prediction...

Update: I don't think the poster was as serious as I originally thought, so I made some slight edits to this post.